THE YEMENS: More Than Just A Border Clash

For more than a decade, Saudi Arabia has viewed with much alarm the
Marxist, pro-Moscow regime in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
(South Yemen), a government so far to the left that it considers Iraq a
"fascist state." South Yemen, the Saudis believe, wants to destabilize
and subvert the entire Arabian Peninsula. That gloomy view gained
credibility last week as South Yemen, taking advantage of a
long-simmering border dispute, launched an all-out attack on its more
populous but militarily weaker northern neighbor, pro-Saudi North Yemen
(The Yemen...